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<span class=large>EZRA</span>
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CHAPTER 1
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King Cyrus of Persia lets the Jews go back to Jerusalem to build the temple—Cyrus returns vessels of house of the Lord taken by Nebuchadnezzar.
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Now</span> in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> by the mouth of <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/1/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 5: 13; 1 Ne. 7: 14; Hel. 8: 20.">Jeremiah</a> might be fulfilled, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> stirred up the spirit of <sup>b</sup><a href="ezra/1/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Dan. 6: 28.">Cyrus</a> king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and <i>put it</i> also in writing, saying,
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Thus saith <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/1/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 3: 7.">Cyrus</a> king of Persia, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an <sup>b</sup><a href="ezra/1/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 23 (22-23); Isa. 44: 28.">house</a> at Jerusalem, which <i>is</i> in Judah.
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Who <i>is there</i> among you of all his people?  his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which <i>is</i> in Judah, and build the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, (he <i>is</i> the God,) which <i>is</i> in Jerusalem.
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And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that <i>is</i> in Jerusalem.
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&#182; Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all <i>them</i> whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> which <i>is</i> in Jerusalem.
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And all they that <i>were</i> about them <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/1/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE assisted them.">strengthened</a> their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all <i>that</i> was willingly offered.
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&#182; Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which Nebuchadnezzar had <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/1/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 27: 22.">brought</a> forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
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Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
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And this <i>is</i> the number of them: thirty <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/1/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR basins.">chargers</a> of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
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Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second <i>sort</i> four hundred and ten, <i>and</i> other vessels a thousand.
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All the vessels of gold and of silver <i>were</i> five thousand and four hundred.  All <i>these</i> did Sheshbazzar bring up with <i>them of</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/1/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR exiles.">captivity</a> that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
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